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Ewing family of Yonkers and New York City, New York

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  Thomas Ewing (1789-1871) — of Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. Born near West Liberty, Ohio County, Va. (now W.Va.), December 28, 1789. U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1831-37, 1850-51; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1841; U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1849-50. Died in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, October 26, 1871 (age 81 years, 302 days). Interment at St. Mary's Cemetery, Lancaster, Ohio.
  Relatives: Father of Eleanor Boyle Ewing (who married William Tecumseh Sherman) and Thomas Ewing (1829-1896); grandfather of Thomas Ewing Jr..
  Political families: Seymour family of New York and Connecticut; Ewing family of Yonkers and New York City, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
William Tecumseh Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) — Born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, February 8, 1820. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; in 1864, he led Union troops who attacked and burned Atlanta, Georgia; U.S. Secretary of War, 1869. Member, Loyal Legion. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 14, 1891 (age 71 years, 6 days). Interment at Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; statue at Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Sherman Park, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and Charles Robert Sherman; brother of Charles Taylor Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman and John Sherman; married, May 1, 1850, to Eleanor Boyle Ewing (daughter of Thomas Ewing); father of Eleanor M. Sherman (who married Alexander Montgomery Thackara); uncle of Mary Hoyt Sherman (who married Nelson Appleton Miles) and Elizabeth Sherman (who married James Donald Cameron); sixth great-grandson of Thomas Welles; second cousin of David Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles Devens Osborne and Lithgow Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont Edwards and Aaron Burr; third cousin of Phineas Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John Davenport, James Davenport, Theodore Dwight, Henry Waggaman Edwards, Ira Yale, Louis Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan Brace, Chauncey Goodrich and Elizur Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo Fairchild Barnum, Andrew Gould Chatfield, Henry Jarvis Raymond and Edwin Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Yale, Theodore Davenport, David Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Fred Lockwood Keeler and Thomas McKeen Chidsey.
  Political families: Seymour family of New York and Connecticut; Ewing family of Yonkers and New York City, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Joseph D. Webster
  Sherman counties in Kan., Neb. and Ore. are named for him.
  The community of Sherman, Michigan, is named for him.  — Mount Sherman, in Lake and Park counties, Colorado, is named for him.
  Politician named for him: W. T. S. Rath
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
  Books about William T. Sherman: Stanley P. Hirshson, The White Tecumseh : A Biography of General William T. Sherman — Mike Resnick, ed., Alternate Presidents [anthology]
  Image source: Great Men and Famous Women (1894)
  Thomas Ewing (1829-1896) — of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kan.; Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, August 7, 1829. Democrat. Private secretary to Pres. Zachary Taylor; lawyer; delegate to Kansas state constitutional convention, 1858; chief justice of Kansas state supreme court, 1861-62; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention from Fairfield County, 1873; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1876 (member, Resolutions Committee); U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1877-81 (12th District 1877-79, 10th District 1879-81); candidate for Governor of Ohio, 1879. Struck by a Third Avenue cable car, and died soon after, in New York, New York County, N.Y., January 21, 1896 (age 66 years, 167 days). Interment at Oakland Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Ewing (1789-1871); married 1856 to Ellen E. Cox; father of Thomas Ewing Jr..
  Political family: Ewing family of Yonkers and New York City, New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Thomas Ewing Jr. — of Yonkers, Westchester County, N.Y. Democrat. Candidate for mayor of Yonkers, N.Y., 1897, 1899. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Ewing (1829-1896); grandson of Thomas Ewing (1789-1871).
  Political family: Ewing family of Yonkers and New York City, New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).

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